Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-28


buccaneers and Marooners of the
Spanish Main" is 8 short and vivid &C
count of some of the piratical leaders who
once made ocean life terror
SCRIBNER'S NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. pub
lished by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
There is perhaps no country in the far
east that SO abounds in interest as that
country whose land draws its fertility
from the waters OF the Nile. Egypt, the
seat of ancient civilization, whose very
lands TEEN with evidences Of a people
once great in arts and science, c land well
explored, yet ever Offering incentives for
renewed search among the remains Of it's
former grandeur. The frontispleCe is
view of the plains where once stood the
magnificent Icity of Thebes, whose tenn
piles even in ruins are wonders of arChl-
tectural skill. The Nile IS seen in the dis
lance, and 1.-THE Modern Nile" by Edward
L. Wilson, forms the opening article.
TO Journey on this river with such q
"compsgnon de voyage" as the writer, is
q rare privilege, and SO we'll is the paper
illustrated that the reader may easily
fancy it is veritable journey and the
scenes are actually before him. The style
of the article is extremely pleasant, and
the whole pervaded with e. freshness and
individuality that is remarkable.
can unpublished draft of the national
constitution by Edmund Randolph" is
an interesting relic Of the formative days
of this republic; Mr. Conveys comments
upon it are timely and well expressed.
Thackeray's letters will be concluded
next month and there are few readers
who will not regret to part with so charm
ing O correspondent.
"Flandroe's Mogul" is well told story
Of faith in the supernatural, cherished by
many railway engineers.
ATLANTIC neutrality-suspicious. Hough-
ton, Miillin & %. Boston.
In this number DR.. Holmes European
bidding his readers final farewell, to
give them his impressions of this excur-
sion, and there is little doubt these will
form as delightful reading as has zone
Hundred Days in Europe"
"a Study of Early Egotism" is q most
interesting paper, showing great industry
Elizabeth r. Pernell, in field hitherto
little valued by explorers after optimistic
material. An old writer declared the
uC0SuCI AofluS NJ law d low uulO
themselves, and this assertion is con-
frmed by Malay, FIJI, Esquimaux and
Hottentot in such way as to
expressed by pessimists Of. mans
losing his individuality.
story, written In negro alect, which
20 M ~ -,., ctr
writer's and readers.
The serials, "The Second Son" and
"Paul Patof," show no tagging in inter
est, and the reader will wait impatiently
the development from month to month.
An excellent article is found in The
Contributors Club on overpraise. There
is nothing young writer dreads more
than adverse criticism, but like the prun-
ng knife in the hand Of the skilful, if it
be properly spilled, symmetry and
beauty will be the result. Much more
lasting is thst fame that attains the
heights with difficulty and effort than
the ephemersl notoriety gained by the
exaggerated praises of undiscerning
critics.
THE LONE STAR MAG AZINE-August. Ed
TIED by Mrs. Lou :. Bedford, Dallas, Tex.
The effort to establish in the south
EN- field Of Journalism, monthlies COM
mensurate with the demand Of magazine
readers, has not met the encouragement
deserved. Mrs. Bedford, despite this
fact, comes bravely to the front and
shows by discriminating judgment and
unflsgging energy her determination to
win success. The opening article for
this month, "The Survival of Customs"
by Professor n. N. Feikel, is g we'll writ
ten paper, in which The author shows the
gradual evolution of constitutional Law
from Teutonic customs. Few persons
outside the legal profession know that
many of the divisions ef land, the origin
of the jury, and other existing
customs, antedste the Msgna
Chsrta, and that this instru-
ment signed at Runnymede by King
John under compulsion of the barons, was
nothing more than confirmation of
what had been the unwritten law since
the rule of Saxon kings.
The paper on "American Literature"
oy the editor Is short but compreiSp-
siVe sketch OF Noah Webster, the G Y